WGU lowered their requirements for their IT Bachelors programs

[Gloxina]

All but 12 credits . You can see why I had to pay a fee.

ALL but 12? You mean literally your entire undergrad degree?!


Man hold up what school is this? If let ppl get it like that I need to do something

 

[Arizax2]

ALL but 12? You mean literally your entire undergrad degree?!


Man hold up what school is this? If let ppl get it like that I need to do something

Yup no lie lol. I had an associate degree at a county college. Transfered those credits to Thomas Edison State University. Then I had a sit-down with my advisor and told him I already knew about Study com and Sophia.org and asked him how many classes can I max out and he told me that I may not want to do it because of the $3000 fee . I'm like nah brah that fee doesn't mean shyt if I'm saving time down the line (promotion at work also). Advisor wasn't that helpful in telling me what were all the transferable courses so I had to do the leg work myself. Study and Sophia has there own page specific to TESU that shows what's transferable (found out they don't really update the page like that tho so be careful). I took my entire course list at TESU for my major and compared them to Sophia and Study to see what I can take and it legit came back to everything but 12 credits. I put an entire word doc together showing my advisor and he confirmed those courses were transferable . He emailed me back with the expiration date on those courses on Study and Sophia so I made sure I knocked those courses out based on those expiration dates in order. I made sure I had those completed courses transfered to TESU immediately to avoided any delay or technicality of them expiring.

When the time came for my graduation academic audit , the guy that audited me was extremely impressed . He said he never seen this shyt before in his life. I think he had to review it with people because my audit took forever to complete. My transcript is legit a 4.0 with the courses I took at TESU and the rest of the courses just show a credit transfer . After he was done talking I asked him about the $3000 fee and be said nah your exempt from it because TESU works with my job with the reimbursement and they have a deal with certain fees can be waived. He told me he was 99% sure of it. Days later I got a hold on my account because I owed the $3000. I called them up and made a big stink about it saying I was told I didn't have to pay the fee anymore and I spent the money. They agreed to cut it down to I think it was $1500 or even less I don't recall. I paid it and went on my way. Eventually I got the green light then graduated in 2022 after sitting on my associate degree for 10 years. I decided to keep going and get my MBA which I'm in right now. I will tell you tho if your going for your masters, depending on where they will probably give you a hard time if you transfered that many credits to get your BS/BA because it shows on the transcript. I applied to one school for my masters and the enrollment person was questioning me about it . Her quote was "so u baught a degree essentially....TESU made no money with you then?!?"" It was wildly disrespectful I got accepted anyway but that didn't sit well with me. Luckily I always do my research and found that my job pays 100% of a specific school they work with in Colorado Technical University. When I found out I can get a free MBA through them directly, I pivoted over there. I Should be done before winter.

Right now I'm starting to dig into finding a way to get an affordable doctorate degree when I wrap up with the masters this year.

The info is out there folks, God bless the internet . I might put up a separate thread just so folks can be in the know on here

 

[semicko82]

Yup no lie lol. I had an associate degree at a county college. Transfered those credits to Thomas Edison State University. Then I had a sit-down with my advisor and told him I already knew about Study com and Sophia.org and asked him how many classes can I max out and he told me that I may not want to do it because of the $3000 fee . I'm like nah brah that fee doesn't mean shyt if I'm saving time down the line (promotion at work also). Advisor wasn't that helpful in telling me what were all the transferable courses so I had to do the leg work myself. Study and Sophia has there own page specific to TESU that shows what's transferable (found out they don't really update the page like that tho so be careful). I took my entire course list at TESU for my major and compared them to Sophia and Study to see what I can take and it legit came back to everything but 12 credits. I put an entire word doc together showing my advisor and he confirmed those courses were transferable . He emailed me back with the expiration date on those courses on Study and Sophia so I made sure I knocked those courses out based on those expiration dates in order. I made sure I had those completed courses transfered to TESU immediately to avoided any delay or technicality of them expiring.

When the time came for my graduation academic audit , the guy that audited me was extremely impressed . He said he never seen this shyt before in his life. I think he had to review it with people because my audit took forever to complete. My transcript is legit a 4.0 with the courses I took at TESU and the rest of the courses just show a credit transfer . After he was done talking I asked him about the $3000 fee and be said nah your exempt from it because TESU works with my job with the reimbursement and they have a deal with certain fees can be waived. He told me he was 99% sure of it. Days later I got a hold on my account because I owed the $3000. I called them up and made a big stink about it saying I was told I didn't have to pay the fee anymore and I spent the money. They agreed to cut it down to I think it was $1500 or even less I don't recall. I paid it and went on my way. Eventually I got the green light then graduated in 2022 after sitting on my associate degree for 10 years. I decided to keep going and get my MBA which I'm in right now. I will tell you tho if your going for your masters, depending on where they will probably give you a hard time if you transfered that many credits to get your BS/BA because it shows on the transcript. I applied to one school for my masters and the enrollment person was questioning me about it . Her quote was "so u baught a degree essentially....TESU made no money with you then?!?"" It was wildly disrespectful I got accepted anyway but that didn't sit well with me. Luckily I always do my research and found that my job pays 100% of a specific school they work with in Colorado Technical University. When I found out I can get a free MBA through them directly, I pivoted over there. I Should be done before winter.

Right now I'm starting to dig into finding a way to get an affordable doctorate degree when I wrap up with the masters this year.

The info is out there folks, God bless the internet . I might put up a separate thread just so folks can be in the know on here

What are you getting your masters in?

 

[Arizax2]

What are you getting your masters in?

MBA with the focus in Data Analytics.

 

[semicko82]

MBA with the focus in Data Analytics.

Dope. Thought about majoring in Data Analytics because that career field is booming at the moment, but I'll stick with BSIT

 

[CopiousX]

I know of somebody that graduated from here and is getting their Master's from M.I.T in Computer Science this year.

It's a new generation and a new age really.

You got cats like this doing more science and engineering work being 100% self-taught than people with Ph.D's from Stanford.

For legitimacy purposes, id reccomend GEorgia tech as the more accessible masters for your avg non-white student. They have the exact same system as WGU for their masters in computer science. Its big on reddit compEng and compSci communities, but little known outside of it. Most programmers go straight to industry after their bachelors, so these type of programs fill a need.

I applied to one school for my masters and the enrollment person was questioning me about it . Her quote was "so u baught a degree essentially....TESU made no money with you then?!?"" It was wildly disrespectful I got accepted anyway but that didn't sit well with me.

 

[Afro]

Damn, nice to know my threads help people years later.

I hope you all benefit from the folks sharing their stories in here, there is a way out of whatever dead end job you got.

Just gotta get a little creative.

 

[Arizax2]

Damn, nice to know my threads help people years later.

I hope you all benefit from the folks sharing their stories in here, there is a way out of whatever dead end job you got.

Just gotta get a little creative.

Facts no excuses in 2023 folks

 

[semicko82]

Damn, nice to know my threads help people years later.

I hope you all benefit from the folks sharing their stories in here, there is a way out of whatever dead end job you got.

Just gotta get a little creative.

I was researching WGU before I decided to enroll, but this thread confirms I'm making the right decision
How were your job prospects once you graduated

 

[IIVI]

For legitimacy purposes, id reccomend GEorgia tech as the more accessible masters for your avg non-white student. They have the exact same system as WGU for their masters in computer science. Its big on reddit compEng and compSci communities, but little known outside of it. Most programmers go straight to industry after their bachelors, so these type of programs fill a need.

I had mentioned Georgia Tech before I made changes to my original post, but that sounds correct.

Many people jump to Georgia Tech after they complete their Comp Sci Bachelor's degree at WGU and gain work experience.

Another note to folks: the $3k tuition can be paid in installments.

 

[Afro]

I was researching WGU before I decided to enroll, but this thread confirms I'm making the right decision
How were your job prospects once you graduated

I ended up not going, I decided to go into a coding bootcamp to "save money" and I wanted to pivot from IT.

Woz-U ended up being a financial and career mistake, but that is it's own topic


WGU would have been the better choice by 100% but I didn't want to take three different math courses (I didn't know about study.com or getting courses done outside of that) (I did TERRIBLE in math all through out grade school)

They had a prereq program you could take through them for like $100 a month so you could finally apply to WGU, but I don't think enough people passed to get into WGU proper so they lowered the requirements in general.

 

[Trav]

Never thought I'd see my school on here lol. Didn't quite do straight tech but got my Health Information Management degree a couple years ago at WGU. Planned on doing a speed run but ended up taking two years cuz I had way too much on my plate.

Leveraged it to get a Masters in Analytics form a local school too but even before that, I was good on job offers. I'm almost 6 figs, 2 certs out this bytch low-key

 

[Arris]

Life changing knowledge in here

 

[Arizax2]

I ended up not going, I decided to go into a coding bootcamp to "save money" and I wanted to pivot from IT.

Woz-U ended up being a financial and career mistake, but that is it's own topic


WGU would have been the better choice by 100% but I didn't want to take three different math courses (I didn't know about study.com or getting courses done outside of that) (I did TERRIBLE in math all through out grade school)

They had a prereq program you could take through them for like $100 a month so you could finally apply to WGU, but I don't think enough people passed to get into WGU proper so they lowered the requirements in general.

I avoided certain majors because of math. I got around it by using Study com and Sophia.org. On study com do your best to get the highest grade possible on the quizzes. Each quiz can be taken 3 times and they will take the highest score. These quizzes are not monitored so use an a math app or calculator. Now the 1 course assignment is also not monitored so get the best score u can which should be easy because just use a damn app to do your math problem. Now that u did that you gained so much points that the final test which IS proctored, does not mean as much. If you have so much points from the quizzes and assignment that it's realistic to pass the course even if you get like a 20% on the final. Even if you barely pass the course it doesn't matter because when you transfer it to your real school it will only show up as a credit and not the actual score.

Not all courses on study.com covers all the math so this is where Sophia org comes in which has more math courses. Sophia as a whole is not proctored. Get an app that does math and you can breeze right through these courses.

Hope this is additional help for the folks that are not good with math like myself.

 

[tay1]

How is the actual content? Do you all feel like it’s good information to study? I would actually like to look into it for the knowledge in addition to the degree and certs.